OUAGADOUGOU— At least 22 civilians were killed in an attack by gunmen in the north-west of Burkina Faso, the government said.“The provisional toll of the cowardly and barbarous attack stood at 22 killed, several injured and material losses,” the govern…

Two of the hardest-hit U.S. regions have raised the alert level over the monkeypox outbreak.San Francisco declared a public health emergency Thursday. The city accounts for 281 of California’s nearly 800 cases. The declaration gives health officials ac…

Seven protesters were shot to death in Sudan on Thursday, medics said, as large crowds took to the streets despite heavy security and a communications blackout to rally against the military leadership that seized power eight months ago.In central Khart…

DAKAR— At least 14 migrants died when a boat caught fire in south Senegal, a local mayor and a health official said.“We have been able to recover 14 bodies,” David Diatta, the mayor of the coastal town of Kafountine in Casamance, said after the fire on…

Two police officers were killed and one wounded in an attack on a police station in northwest Benin on Sunday, police sources said, the latest in a string of deadly assaults in an area affected by a spillover of militant activity in neighboring Burkina…

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has repealed COVID-19 rules that made masks mandatory in indoor public spaces, limited the size of gatherings and imposed entry requirements at its borders, the health minister said on Thursday.South Africa has recorded the …

ABUJA, NIGERIA — Gunmen attacked two churches in rural northwestern Nigeria on Sunday, killing three people, witnesses and a state official said, weeks after a similar attack in the West African nation left 40 worshippers dead.The attack in Kajuru area…

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — South Africa on Saturday hailed a WTO agreement to allow developing countries to start producing their own COVID vaccines following a near two-year battle.”We secured an agreement. It was a strongly fought agreement,” said …

GENEVA— The World Health Organization says it is working with experts to come up with a new name for monkeypox.It comes after more than 30 scientists wrote last week about the “urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatising” name for the vir…

Pregnancy puts women at higher risk of severe medical complications or death from COVID-19, according to a new study of more than 1,300 women in sub-Saharan Africa. Researchers argue that vaccinating pregnant women against the coronavirus should be mad…